Henrik Lian

Doctoral Research Fellow

Department of Nutrition and Public Health

Email: henrik.lian@uia.no
Phone: +47 38142201
Mobile phone: +4798480302

Office I3005 (Universitetsveien 25, 4630 Kristiansand, Norway)

Research groups

Centre for Lifecourse Nutrition

Areas of responsibility

I work as a research fellow at the institute and have a background in clinical nutrition and food technology.

Research

I am part of a research group where we are using simple digital dietary interventions to promote healthy eating habits among children at home and in daycare. We call this initiative "Nutrition Now." Previous research at our institute has shown that such simple interventions can promote healthy eating habits in children. With Nutrition Now, we aim to apply this research on a larger scale. My task is to assess the implementation of Nutrition Now in daycare facilities to make the program as effective as possible.

The overarching purpose of Nutrition Now is to promote healthy eating habits early in life for good health in a lifelong perspective.

Academic interests

Prevention and treatment of lifestyle diseases.

Adipose tissue, fat, and its role in the body.

Obesity and its treatment.

What is taste and smell?

Appetite and the desire to eat.

Metabolism of energy from food.

Energy metabolism in the body.

How does food processing affect the food itself and us?

Our intestines.

What influences our food choices?

How can eating habits be changed?

Food from an evolutionary perspective.

Short biography

15.04.22: Research Fellow, Department of Nutrition and Public Health, Faculty of Health and Sports Sciences, UiA

14.04.22: Until the specified date, I worked at Sørlandet Hospital as a clinical nutritionist, primarily focusing on the treatment and prevention of obesity and lifestyle-related diseases.

Medin, Anine Christine; Vik, Frøydis Nordgård; Helle, Christine; Helland, Sissel Heidi; Wills, Andrew Keith & Osorio, Natalie Garzon [Show all 22 contributors for this article] (2024). Scaling up evidence-based digital early life nutrition interventions in a county setting: an implementation trial – protocol for Phase 2 of the Nutrition Now project. Frontiers in Public Health. ISSN 2296-2565. 11. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1326787. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Background: Few effective health interventions transition from smaller efficacy or effectiveness studies to real-world implementation at scale, representing a gap between evidence and practice. Recognising this, we have developed Nutrition Now – a tailored digital resource building on four efficacious dietary interventions, aiming to improve nutrition in the important first 1,000 days of life. Nutrition Now targets and guides expectant parents and parents of 0–2 year olds, serves as a reliable source of evidence-based information for midwives and public health nurses at maternal and child healthcare (MCH) centres, and offers pedagogical tools for early childhood education and care (ECEC) staff. The aim of this study is to implement Nutrition Now at scale and evaluate the impact of different sets of multifaceted implementation strategies on implementation outcomes. Methods: A quasi-experimental design with three study arms will be used, providing either low, medium or high implementation support, when rolled out in 50 municipalities in 2 counties in Norway. Nutrition Now will be implemented in MCH and ECEC settings and made available to expectant parents and parents of 0–2 year olds through social media and MCH. The implementation support builds on strategies described in the Expert Recommendations for Implementing Change (ERIC) implementation framework and is informed by dialogues with stakeholders. Impact of the different degree of implementation support will be assessed by examining reach, adoption, fidelity, and sustainability using usage data generated from the Nutrition Now resource, publicly available municipal data and qualitative interviews with MCH and ECEC staff. Discussion: Nutrition Now Phase 2 will break new ground by scaling up successively delivered and complementary dietary interventions in the first 1,000 days of life in a real-life context. The project also seeks to identify what level of implementation support is most effective when implementing digital, scalable, evidence-based early-life nutrition interventions in community settings. The project will inform implementation research and provide knowledge about effective implementation strategies to be used in a national scale-up of Nutrition Now. Trial registration: The study is registered prospectively (submitted 14/06/2022, registration date: 19/06/2022) in the International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number registry (ISRCTN): reg. Number: ISRCTN10694967, https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN10694967.
Vassbakk-Brovold, Karianne ; Berntsen, Sveinung; Fegran, Liv; Lian, Henrik; Mjåland, Odd & Mjåland, Svein [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2018). Lifestyle changes in cancer patients undergoing curative or palliative chemotherapy: is it feasible? Acta Oncologica. ISSN 0284-186X. 57(6), p. 831–838. doi: 10.1080/0284186X.2017.1413247.
Vassbakk Brovold, Karianne; Berntsen, Sveinung; Fegran, Liv; Lian, Henrik; Mjåland, Odd & Mjåland, Svein [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2015). Individualized Comprehensive Lifestyle Intervention in Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy with Curative or Palliative Intent: Who Participates? PLOS ONE. ISSN 1932-6203. 10(7). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131355. Full text in Research Archive
Haugen, Fred; Norheim, Frode; Lian, Henrik; Wensaas, Andreas Johansen; Dueland, Svein & Berg, Ole [Show all 10 contributors for this article] (2010). IL-7 is expressed and secreted by human skeletal muscle cells. American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology. ISSN 0363-6143. 298(4), p. C807–C816. doi: 10.1152/ajpcell.00094.2009. Show summary
In addition to generating movement, skeletal muscle may have a function as a secretory organ. The aim of the present study was to identify novel proteins with signaling capabilities secreted from skeletal muscle cells. IL-7 was detected in media conditioned by primary cultures of human myotubes differentiated from satellite cells, and concentrations increased with incubation time. By immunoblotting and real-time RT-PCR IL-7 expression was confirmed at both protein and mRNA levels. Furthermore, with immunofluorescence and specific antisera, multinucleated myotubes were found to coexpress IL-7 and myosin heavy chain. During differentiation of human myotubes from satellite cells, IL-7 expression increased at mRNA and protein levels. In contrast, mRNA expression of the IL-7 receptor was 80% lower in myotubes compared with satellite cells. Incubations with recombinant IL-7 under differentiation conditions caused ∼35% reduction in mRNA for the terminal myogenic markers myosin heavy chain 2 (MYH2) and myogenin (MYOG), suggesting that IL-7 may act on satellite cells to inhibit development of the muscle fiber phenotype. Alternative routes of cell development were investigated, and IL-7 increased migration of satellite cells by 40% after 48 h in a Transwell system, whereas cell proliferation remained unchanged. In vivo, real-time RT-PCR analysis of musculus vastus lateralis (n = 10) and musculus trapezius (n = 7) biopsies taken from male individuals undergoing a strength training program demonstrated that after 11 wk mean IL-7 mRNA increased by threefold (P = 0.01) and fourfold (P = 0.04), respectively. In conclusion, we have demonstrated that IL-7 is a novel myokine regulated both in vitro and in vivo, and it may play a role in the regulation of muscle cell development.

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Lian, Henrik (2024). Intervju/uttalelse på P4-nyhetene (radio). Tema: Hvordan kan rekordhøy prisøkningen på en rekke sunne matvarer i 2023 slå ut på forbruk av sunn mat og påvirke folkehelsen. Finn Irgens Myking Journalist, P4 nyhetene, gjennomførte intervjuet. Det ble sent fredag 12. januar 2024. [Radio]. P4-nyhetene.
Lian, Henrik (2023). WHO: Slik påvirker lettbrus vekten din. [Newspaper]. Verdens Gang.
Lian, Henrik (2023). Studier på vektnedgang: Menn har en klar fordel. [Newspaper]. Nettavisen.
Øverby, Nina Cecilie; Hillesund, Elisabet Rudjord; Helland, Sissel Heidi; Helle, Christine; Wills, Andrew Keith & Lamu, Admassu Nadew [Show all 23 contributors for this article] (2023). Evaluating the effectiveness and implementation of evidence-based early-life nutrition interventions in a community setting a hybrid type 1 non-randomized trial – the Nutrition Now project protocol. Frontiers in Endocrinology. ISSN 1664-2392. 13. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2022.1071489. Full text in Research Archive
Lian, Henrik (2022). Ned 15 kilo - metoden forbløffer. [Newspaper]. Dagbladet.
Lian, Henrik (2022). Ferievanene kan påvirke helsen din: − Ikke bli helt ukritisk. [Newspaper]. Verdens Gang.

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Published Apr. 16, 2024 11:22 AM